QUOTES by Gustave Flaubert
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"And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space."
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"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."
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"You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything"
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"Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling."
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"He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex."
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"Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."
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"I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony."
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"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."
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"But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted."
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"He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him."
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"You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful."
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"I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is."
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"Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again."
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"There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"
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"One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us."
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"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."
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"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
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"An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space."
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"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
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"Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)"
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"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."
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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
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"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
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